Word: abreast
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...facsimile of the old cleary Guttu-O'Mally power play to patch the varsity's playmaking weakness. When a Brown skater is in the penalty box the forwards, for example the first line of Dave Morse, Dwinell and Bruce Thomas, will be joined by one defenseman and skate four abreast across the blue line, in an effort to spring loose a wing...
...keep abreast of matters, she cultivated a close contact with tall (6 ft. 4½ in.), young (35) Executive Vice President David Wallace, a Bob Young whiz kid. Anita Young urged Chairman Kirby, who is also president, to lift Wallace to the presidency. Instead, after Kirby heard that Wallace was huddling with Boston Industrialist Abraham Sonnabend, who wanted to take over Alleghany (TIME, Nov. 23), Kirby fired Wallace. Anita Young fumed, pointedly refrained from endorsing Kirby against Sonnabend...
Piel was right, but his theory was four years in the proof. To stay abreast of fast-breaking scientific research, he commissioned authoritative reports from men at the frontiers of discovery: Physicist I. I. Rabi, Geneticist George W. Beadle, the late Dr. Albert Einstein and 15 other Nobel prizewinners. The magazine was redesigned to offer a rich reading diet of articles on all the leading science disciplines: the physical, social, technical, medical and life sciences. Scientific American blossomed with graphic color so compelling that a portfolio of illustrations has sold more than 7,000 copies...
...foreign businessmen: President Joseph Callies, 50, and General Manager Georges Vieillard, 64, of France's fast-rising La Compagnie des Machines Bull. Barely known outside France ten years ago, Machines Bull manufactures a line of punch-card and sorting machines topped off by computers. Recently it pulled abreast of IBM in many markets of the Continent, is now the biggest computer maker outside...
Last Saturday Penn pulled off a last-minute field goal to draw abreast of the Midshipmen 22 to 22, calling attention to itself as a significant power in the East. Capable of giving an even fight to a nationally-ranked eleven. Penn, on paper, at least, should not have to worry too much over the twice-defeated Crimson...